The first volumetric monitor appeared on the market It came true: Actuality Systems presented to the public the first volumetric monitor (the name of this class of technology has yet to be found), which creates a three-dimensional image inside ...

The first 3D monitor hit the market

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It was: Actuality Systems presented to the public the first three-dimensional monitor (the name of this class of technology has yet to be found), which creates a three-dimensional image inside a 25-centimeter ball. It is somehow unusual to call what is inside the ball an image - this is a color three-dimensional model with a “volume change” frequency of 10 frames per second (again, what the hell, frames!). For one characteristic - the resolution of the monitor - there is still a worthy name: voxel (volumetric element) - by analogy with the pixel (pixel). The resolution is quite decent - each slice is transmitted with a television resolution of 758x758 pixels, and in a full circular panorama there are 400 such slices in 1/10 of a second, or 4000 per second. The device works simply, like everything ingenious - a transparent liquid crystal display rotates inside the ball, on which colored dots light up in the right place and at the right microseconds, forming the shells of three-dimensional objects. The scene can be viewed from any direction horizontally and at an angle of 270 degrees vertically, as the ball rests on an opaque pedestal that you cannot look under.

How glorious it is to criticize the prototype of a new class of technology: the diameter of the ball is small (25 cm), the frequency of volume changes is low (10 fps), the number of displayed colors is small (8), the cost is high (about 40 thousand dollars), the weight is large (27 kg) , few or no programs that can "talk" with such a monitor in its language, and so on. And what a narrow-minded person you need to be in order not to see the onset of a new era of humanity in the new monitor - the era of three-dimensional cinema with a completely new aesthetics; the era of fine arts, representing a fusion of painting and sculpture; the era of the heyday of education, in which nothing and never need to be explained on the fingers; And that's just the first thing that comes to mind.

Notre Dame Cathedral was built for several centuries, a computer in half a century from a multi-story building worth a billion dollars turned into a small box worth several hundred dollars. Now, with its help, the newborn brainchild of information technology will be able to go all the way of its formation - from secret laboratories to our desktop - in a few years and "lose weight in price" many dozens of times.

Congratulations to all who were lucky enough to witness such a turning point in human history.